{"id":911009,"date":"2026-11-09T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/911009\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:20:11","slug":"robert-de-niro-knocks-elon-musk-at-musk-documentary-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/911009\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert De Niro Knocks Elon Musk At ‘Musk’ Documentary Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElon Musk<\/a> isn\u2019t having much of a week. His spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the midterm elections, only to have his preferred Republican candidates lose. And now he\u2019s taking it on the chin from Robert De Niro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar-winning actor was joined by his fellow Tribeca Festival founder Jane Rosenthal<\/a> for a screening in New York City Sunday of Musk<\/a>, Alex Gibney<\/a>\u2019s documentary that is highly critical of the world\u2019s richest man. We understand a roomful of Academy members was on hand for the event at the Crosby Hotel in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cElon Musk spent about 300 million dollars getting Trump elected in 2024,\u201d De Niro said as he introduced the film. \u201cAnd he just spent close to half a billion on Republicans in this past week\u2019s election. How did that turn out for you?\u201d he said to cheers and laughter.<\/p>\n

\n\tDe Niro alluded to more bad news for Musk this week \u2013 his announcement on X that Tesla would end production of the much-ballyhooed Cybertruck next summer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn the fight between Musk\u2019s money and democracy, democracy won. This time. But just like his grotesque Cybertruck, Musk isn\u2019t going anywhere,\u201d De Niro commented. \u201cIt\u2019s a reminder that while we are celebrating the massive electoral repudiation of Trump and Trumpism, we have to be vigilant \u2014 and not just vigilant, we have to be ready to take action. This is an important film, I hope you will be as moved as I was by it and spread the word.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"L-R<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tL-R Jane Rosenthal, director Alex Gibney, Robert De Niro<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Bleecker Street\/photo by Mettie Ostrowski<\/p>\n

\n\tFor his part, Oscar winner Gibney told De Niro, \u201cThank you, Bob, for all you have done for all of the resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMusk, with a running time of 3 hours 52 minutes, is now available on VOD platforms. Released theatrically by Bleecker Street, the documentary has made over $700,000 at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI admit I was apprehensive before watching this film, the first time I saw it. I mean four hours, Alex, really?\u201d Rosenthal kidded Gibney. \u201cFour hours in the company of Elon Musk \u2014 it is a lot to ask. It is a thoroughly engrossing film about a thoroughly gross character. A character we cannot ignore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRosenthal added, \u201c2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu [author of The Art of War] cautioned us to know your enemy. Musk the film exposes Musk the man and we cannot look away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Elon<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tElon Musk speaks inside the Capital One Arena after Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of UPI\/Alamy Live News\/Photo by Ken Cedeno<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday night, Musk won Best Biographical Documentary<\/a> at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards in New York. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and went on to screen at the Toronto Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and more. It screens later this week at DOC NYC after making that festival\u2019s prestigious shortlist<\/a> of the year\u2019s best documentaries. Musk is also slated to screen this month at IDFA in Amsterdam, the world\u2019s biggest documentary film festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk isn\u2019t having much of a week. His spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the midterm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[332262,11,88,74709,206,13529,47194],"class_list":["post-911009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alex-gibney","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-jane-rosenthal","tag-movies","tag-musk","tag-robert-de-niro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}